The Ligurian regional election of 2010 took place on 28–29 March 2010. The incumbent President

Claudio Burlando Claudio Burlando (born 27 April 1954, in Genoa) is an Italian politician, and was President of Liguria, until 31 March 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party, and a former Democrats of the Left member. Career After graduating with a deg ...

of the centre-left

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(PD) faced

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, backed by

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(PdL) and Northern League Liguria.Biasotti e burlando pronti campagna
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, when he was defeated by Burlando. The Union of the Centre (UdC), a traditionally centre-right political force, supported the centre-left candidate Burlando. Burlando secured a second consecutive term, but the PdL came out as the largest party in the region.

Electoral system

Regional elections in Liguria were ruled by the "Tatarella law" (approved in 1995), which provided for a mixed electoral system: four fifths of the regional councilors were elected in

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constituencies by

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, using the

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with a

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and

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s, while the residual votes and the unassigned seats were grouped into a "single regional constituency", where the whole ratios and the highest remainders were divided with the Hare method among the provincial party lists; one fifth of the council seats instead was reserved for regional lists and assigned with a

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: the leader of the regional list that scored the highest number of votes was elected to the presidency of the Region while the other candidates were elected regional councilors. A threshold of 3% had been established for the provincial lists, which, however, could still have entered the regional council if the regional list to which they were connected had scored at least 5% of valid votes. The ''

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'' was also allowed: the voter can indicate a candidate for the presidency but prefer a provincial list connected to another candidate.

Electoral system

Parties and candidates

Results

Results by province and capital city

References